the hospital orderly pushing the trolley down the halls of the hospital at 2 in the morning is paying a higher tax rate right now in this country than the 400 top income earners who are bringing home a third of a billion dollars a year.
Whitehouse highlights the disparity in tax rates between average earners and the wealthiest Americans.
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I would just like to ask you if you would be willing to work with me, and I know Senator Wyden is interested in this on the Finance Committee as well, in a general look at how to do cliff smoothing.
Reforming Social Security's payroll tax cap could close more than 100 percent of the long-term financing gap.
I have been pretty candid about my views about our Tax Code. I assert that our Tax Code has been corrupted by special interests.
I think the bottom line here is that there is an element of Trump wanting to sort of subjugate Republican senators here.
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